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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Monster Slippers

I am personally a barefoot person…if at all possible, I am barefoot. This winter, however, has left me with cold feet far too many times and I have actually been wearing my slippers a lot. Since K didn’t have any slippers, I thought I would make him some, and of course they had to be fun, so I ended up with monster slippers…or dinosaur slippers (take your pick).

I thought they turned out really cute…my husband slapped his forehead with his hand when I showed him what I had been doing all morning. K laughed hysterically as he ran around poking my legs with his monster toes :).

To make slippers for your own little monster (said with utmost fondness in my voice…), you will need fleece, a sewing machine, and narrow elastic if desired.

Trace your child’s foot on paper. Cut out the pattern with however much seam allowance you prefer around the tracing.

Cut out two fabric feet (with the seam allowance) from fleece.

Measure how far it is from the tip of your child’s toes to where their foot meets their ankle. For K, it was 5 1/2 inches.

Make a pattern for the top of the slipper being slightly longer than your child’s foot, and shaped kind of like a horse-shoe with the tip of the horseshoe being the measurement your found in number 3. See the picture below if that was confusing.